Least engaged fan base

[AjcW]

It's not really a statistic that reflects on us as fans. The clubs comms and marketing set up has been abysmal for years, there's teams in League 2 and the conference showing us up to be perfectly honest. 

 

It's interesting what @purpleronnie says above with the 'yuk'.... thing is, if content/engagement is done right, you'll interact with it without even realising/it causing you any issues, sometimes even if you're not intending to!

 

I'd bet we've got a similar sized team to clubs absolutely smashing it out the park too. 

[davieG]

Wolves have had some big issues with club lately that will have increased 'engagement' / divorce comments.

[Stadt]

2 minutes ago, AjcW said:

It's not really a statistic that reflects on us as fans. The clubs comms and marketing set up has been abysmal for years, there's teams in League 2 and the conference showing us up to be perfectly honest. 

 

It's interesting what @purpleronnie says above with the 'yuk'.... thing is, if content/engagement is done right, you'll interact with it without even realising/it causing you any issues, sometimes even if you're not intending to!

 

I'd bet we've got a similar sized team to clubs absolutely smashing it out the park too. 

This is what the Top & Whelan are fine, it’s just Rudkin that needs to go fall short. Near on every function at the club is stale 

[hackenbacker]

13 hours ago, filbertway said:

Have you seen our crowds? Average age of a Leicester fan must be about 65  not a massive surprise

well that would mean most of them are married (and no longer engaged)

[filbertway]

1 minute ago, hackenbacker said:

well that would mean most of them are married (and no longer engaged)

Ashamed to say that took 3 reads before it sunk in

 

[fazzyfox]

Only that low whilst Patson's out of action though, when he's available half of Zambia make a daily visit to the sites to question why we're not building a team around the second coming of Pele. 

[Fox92]

Everything is social media and money driven nowadays isn't it. Wish football would be separate from that. 

[pkonline]

Serious engagement isn't about social media posts, likes and comments.

It's a stupid measure.

[dmayne7]

15 hours ago, OntarioFox said:

Think it's two factors:

• We got a massive influx of followers from the EPL win, which was largely casual / short term interest that has waned. Those people still follow the club but haven't actually cared about anything we've done for years (save for perhaps during the helicopter tragedy and FA Cup win).
• Our social media teams are almost uniquely shite and tone-deaf, and have to vet a lot of comments sections when lurching from one crisis to the next and trying to pretend nothing is happening. Still ongoing now with Cooper in charge, but has been true of us since the wheels fell off under Rodgers, and continued during the iffy periods under Maresca. Hard to have reliable engagement statistics when you're holding a bunch of comments for "review" or even going as far as to turn comments off on some sections.

Exactly this. It says Engagement rate and we have 2 1/2 times the followers on X so we could get the same number of interactions and our rate would be way lower. Think ours has tailed off in general but we were generally more followed online, than every club outside the 'big 6'.

 

Suspiciously, Wolves have way more subscribers than us on YouTube. I say suspiciously, because in all my years, I've never met a Wolves fan, yet have for most other football league clubs. Never lived in Leicester or remotely close but I've still met plenty of Leicester fans. Lived with 2 different fans in my first 2 years at uni and then another fan in one of my friendship groups. Obviously, I'm going to be more aware of somebody supports Leicester but that tells me that our reach is wider than people think. To be fair, they probably were all plastics .

 

What this does do, is highlight one of my biggest gripes with the ownership and how abysmal the commerciality was after the title win. Should have massively increased sponsorships and grown the fanbase externally (to bring in the money), even if the latter is slightly to the detriment of loyal fans, especially fans like me whose opportunity to go to games is very limited. One of the biggest underlying issues.

[murphy]

We may be the least engaged on social media but whenever I have visited other fan forums they seem  a lot quieter and less engaged than ours.  I'm yet to see a forum as good as FT

[OntarioFox]

15 minutes ago, murphy said:

We may be the least engaged on social media but whenever I have visited other fan forums they seem  a lot quieter and less engaged than ours.  I'm yet to see a forum as good as FT

It really is one of the best out there, we're incredibly lucky to have it. One of the few that has seemingly weathered the storm of modern social media, and which has in fact flourished while fans on other teams' forums (and a decent chunk of Bentley's Roof in our case) naturally migrated to shared platforms like Reddit and Facebook.

For what it's worth, and this is more of a general observation / prediction, I can see fan forums becoming a more popular thing again in the coming years, as centralised social media sites like Xitter and Facebook become worse and worse to the point of being unusable. I gave up on getting any football news / discussion on those sites because of the prevalence of bots, global "fans" and blue-tick pricks, and it feels like formerly safe spaces like Reddit are going the same way. Plenty of people here (myself included) talk some absolute shite, but on the whole you can have an actual discussion about your football team without it being derailed by WUMs and some guy with an Arabic name trying to sell you a guaranteed return on the day's betting.

That's a big part of the problem, by the way. 95% of conversations going on under football posts on Xitter nowadays are bots and scammers, often with zero relation to the actual topic of the post. Why would anyone bother to engage when it's obvious no other actual fans are?

Edited 23 October 2024 by OntarioFox
i blame wellens

[rugbyblue]

11 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

It really is one of the best out there, we're incredibly lucky to have it. One of the few that has seemingly weathered the storm of modern social media, and which has in fact flourished while fans on other teams' forums (and a decent chunk of Bentley's Roof in our case) naturally migrated to shared platforms like Reddit and Facebook.

For what it's worth, and this is more of a general observation / prediction, I can see fan forums becoming a more popular thing again in the coming years, as centralised social media sites like Xitter and Facebook become worse and worse to the point of being unusable. I gave up on getting any football news / discussion on those sites because of the prevalence of bots, global "fans" and blue-tick pricks, and it feels like formerly safe spaces like Reddit are going the same way. Plenty of people here (myself included) talk some absolute shite, but on the whole you can have an actual discussion about your football team without it being derailed by WUMs and some guy with an Arabic name trying to sell you a guaranteed return on the day's betting.

That's a big part of the problem, by the way. 95% of conversations going on under football posts on Xitter nowadays are bots and scammers, often with zero relation to the actual topic of the post. Why would anyone bother to engage when it's obvious no other actual fans are?

Agreed. Or things like "glory to blessed Abdul, love gives him power to win.  Mighty city blessed with luck forever. Greatest love to team for Premier league title" or the like gets very tiresome very quickly .

[OntarioFox]

5 minutes ago, rugbyblue said:

Agreed. Or things like "glory to blessed Abdul, love gives him power to win.  Mighty city blessed with luck forever. Greatest love to team for Premier league title" or the like gets very tiresome very quickly .

Taking things back now, but I will never forget the legions of Algerians on Facebook c. 2017-19 telling us "YOU WILL WIN THE HAIR WITHOUT MEHREZZ" followed by them spamming this one GIF over and over again

 

Guessing it's a mistranslation of "nothing", but I still choose to believe that Mahrez leaving coinciding with us starting to play lads with massive barnets (Soyuncu, Faes, Choudhury) is no coincidence. 

Edited 23 October 2024 by OntarioFox

[Sly]

18 hours ago, adejo92 said:

Probably not far wrong with us but no way Wolves are that high up.

 

Selling themselves to a sponsor.

I think this one is simple to answer really, If measure as a % of engagements by total followers. 
 

We have a massive amount following our title win. We are actually ranked 7th across the entire country after the greedy six. We have nearly three times the amount of Wolves.

 

So for every reply on a Wolves post, we’d need three on ours. 
 

If we are peddling guff (which we do), who’s replying to it? 

 

 

[KFS]

On 22/10/2024 at 12:52, Golden Fox said:

Isn't engagement in that sense how many people interact? e.g. retweet, like, comment, so its compared to number of followers. 

 

I'm pretty sure we have a massive social media following - probably to do with the Premier League win and random Thai influencers, so wouldn't be surprised if we have a high proportion of people who follow the club but don't interact.

 

The fact you have so few followers you are on first name terms with all of them probably isn't a reason to brag and is why Wolves are looking for sponsors... 

This. Some shit consultant has helped them with this and it shows 

[cropstonfox]

On 22/10/2024 at 20:31, filbertway said:

Have you seen our crowds? Average age of a Leicester fan must be about 65  not a massive surprise.

Age is generally listed as a protected characteristic.Along with race,gender sexual orientation,disabilities, body image

apologies if any have been missed.Do all of these apply to our fan base or are we just selective,regarding which particular one to call out?

[CosbehFox]

23 hours ago, murphy said:

We may be the least engaged on social media but whenever I have visited other fan forums they seem  a lot quieter and less engaged than ours.  I'm yet to see a forum as good as FT

Which like or not is most likely representative of an older fan base 

[CosbehFox]

8 hours ago, KFS said:

This. Some shit consultant has helped them with this and it shows 

Assisted greatly by Wolves’ having a Korean player too